Officials with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) were in Dimock Township, PA on Thursday and Friday, asking residents to participate in a voluntary survey to address “potential gaps in sampling and sample results.”

Although the EPA did not elaborate as to why the survey was needed, local sources said agents met with several households in the Carter Road area of the township with contaminated water supplies.

“They met with me for about an hour and a half last night,” Ronald Carter Sr. told NGI’s Shale Daily on Friday. “It was just a home and well survey, [but] they said that some new things had come to light. I don’t know what they were talking about. They had been provided with more water samples [and] are going around interviewing people in this area.”

EPA spokesperson Terri White confirmed to NGI’s Shale Daily that agents had distributed an information sheet during their meetings with residents.

(To read the full story go to www.shaledaily.com).

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